Next Big Thing - with Lauren Ingram Lauren Ingram

Denzil Eden engineered an amazing conversational AI tool way before ChatGPT hit the news. Her product Smarty can organise your calendar with just a few words, and plays the role of your personal assistant.

Denzil has degrees in computer science & AI from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard, but found that the market wasn’t ready for her advanced product for a long time - and that pitching her startup now is a very different process now that people understand slick chatbots.

We talk about why AI literacy is so important, and what she would do differently if she started again today (spoiler alert: she wouldn’t build the tool just yet!).

LINKS:

Denzil Eden on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denzils/ 

Smarty AI: https://www.smarty.ai/ 

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Host: Lauren Ingram

Producer: Alex LaneWe record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Kate Ross has pivoted her digital agency of the last 15 years, called eight&four, to offer its own suite of AI tools because she was frustrated by the limitations of just using ChatGPT.

She shares the agency’s successes and the misses in building bespoke AI solutions, such as a tone of voice tool that a large travel brand now lets every employee use. Kate also gives us some good old fashioned British cynicism (or realism!) about the hype and bluster (and even white lies) about some of the AI tools out there.

She is also bullish on the future of creativity. So if you’re a marketer, work in an agency, or use tech to sell more in your business, this episode is for you!

LINKS:

Kate Ross on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katemhross/ 

eight&four: https://www.eightandfour.com/ 

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CREDITS:

Host: Lauren Ingram

Producer: Alex Lane

We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Samantha G. Wolfe is one of the leading voices in the metaverse space - she is an adjunct professor at NYU's Steinhardt School teaching courses including ‘The Business of the Metaverse, and 'Avatars and Virtual Humans’, and she’s authored two books including ‘Metaversed: See Beyond The Hype’.

We cover AI-generated influencers, using tech for good or evil, and - in her position as a leading expert in emerging tech - what she sees as the next big thing.

LINKS:

Samantha G. Wolfe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthawolfe/ 

Samantha’s consultancy PitchFWD: https://www.wearepitchfwd.com/ 

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CREDITS:

Host: Lauren Ingram

Producer: Alex Lane

We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

Lea Turner grew her LinkedIn following phenomenally fast in late 2019 - so when covid hit in 2020, she pivoted her business and started offering LinkedIn training.

Now with 168k followers on LinkedIn and a sold-out membership community for small businesses, Lea is the perfect person to tell us how to stand out in the AI era when there’s a ton of noise out there.

We cover:


Why now is the right time to build a personal brand - and how to get started


What to write on LinkedIn if you find it cringey


Algorithm changes to stay on top of


And Lea’s no-holds-barred thoughts on AI and business



LINKS:

Lea Turner on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lea-turner/ 

Lea on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leadoeslinkedin/

Get Lea’s free LinkedIn cheat sheet: https://leaturner.co.uk/products/free-linkedin-cheat-sheet 

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CREDITS:

Host: Lauren Ingram

Producer: Alex Lane

We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram

Leanne Elliott Young knows how to capture the zeitgeist, whether at Nike in their highly secretive Rm72 team and collaborating with Virgil Abloh, or now at the helm of the Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF), as a cofounding team of self-professed “architects of a new digital culture”.

Leanne talks through her career, having been approached to join Nike not long after graduating, and spent nearly a decade there before rejecting fashion norms and throwing herself into digital fashion and pioneering bleeding edge tech instead - helping IoDF achieve world firsts such as the first ever NFT worn at the British Fashion Awards.

Leanne also shares her vision for the future, where technology seamlessly integrates into our lives, and our consumption habits shift towards reselling rather than producing everything new.

LINKS:

Leanne Elliott Young on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leanne-elliott-young-metaversemama/ 

Leanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanneelliottyoung/ 

Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF): https://institute-digital.fashion/ 

EVENTS: 

Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning resources: www.instagram.com/nextbigthingstudios  

CREDITS:

Host: Lauren Ingram

Producer: Alex Lane

We record using Riverside. Want to make your own podcast? Get started here: ⁠https://www.riverside.fm/?via=lauren-ingram⁠

You don’t need 50 new AI tools, you just need a few that you know how to use really well. So if the constant tech changes are leaving you with FOMO, we’ve got you covered.


Host Lauren Ingram, former women's lead for Meta, interviews leaders about the latest tech and why it matters.
Next Big Thing is here to help you not just survive, but thrive in the next internet.



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